The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions

by Joseph Conrad

Overview

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of articles that were published in different periodicals between 1904 and 1906. It was published as an autobiographical memoir in 1906. Conrad refers to the book as "a very intimate revelation... I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life; went on full of love's delight and love's anguish, facing them in open-eyed exultation without bitterness and without repining, from the first hour to the last."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788828376279
Publisher:	Publisher s11838
Publication date:	08/18/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	270 KB

About the Author

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

Date of Birth:

December 3, 1857

Date of Death:

August 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Berdiczew, Podolia, Russia

Place of Death:

Bishopsbourne, Kent, England

Education:

Tutored in Switzerland. Self-taught in classical literature. Attended maritime school in Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

Introduction Philip Marsden 9

1 Landfalls and Departures 19

2 Emblems of Hope 29

3 The Fine Art 38

4 Cobwebs and Gossamer 49

5 The Weight of the Burden 59

6 Overdue and Missing 70

7 The Character of the Foe 83

8 Rulers of East and West 92

9 The Faithful River 110

10 In Captivity 123

11 Initiation 136

12 The Nursery of the Craft 154

13 The Tremolino 161

14 The Heroic Age 185